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Judith Butler Quotes: Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something.
         

Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something.


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We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop new ones.

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All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us.

All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us.



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To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.



As we interpret ourselves differently, we also live ourselves differently.

As we interpret ourselves differently, we also live ourselves differently.



Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.





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This page presents the quote "Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something.". Author of this quote is Judith Butler. This quote is about faces, missing, missing something, undone,.